§ 5:8-12 — Continuous study of operation of licensing laws

It shall be the duty of the commission to carry on continuous study and investigation of the operation of the Bingo Licensing Law and the Raffles Licensing Law, and the administration thereof by the several municipalities of the State, throughout the State, for the purpose of ascertaining from time to time any defects in said laws, which may be discovered, by reason whereof any abuses in the administration thereof and any evasions of the terms thereof may arise or be practiced, and for the purpose of formulating and recommending improvements and changes in said laws and in any other laws of the State, which the commission may determine to be desirable to prevent such abuses and evasions and to guard against the use of said laws as a cloak for the carrying on of organized gambling and crime, and to insure that said laws shall be in such form and be so administered as to serve the true purposes for which they were enacted, namely the operation and conduct of the games of chance therein described for educational, charitable, patriotic, religious or public spirited uses only. L.1954, c. 7, p. 48, s. 12.